These are the meanings of the letters ERTE when you unscramble them.
- Rete (n.)
A net or network; a plexus; particularly, a network of blood vessels or nerves, or a part resembling a network.
- Tree (n.)
A cross or gallows; as Tyburn tree.
- Tree (n.)
A mass of crystals, aggregated in arborescent forms, obtained by precipitation of a metal from solution. See Lead tree, under Lead.
- Tree (n.)
A piece of timber, or something commonly made of timber; -- used in composition, as in axletree, boottree, chesstree, crosstree, whiffletree, and the like.
- Tree (n.)
Any perennial woody plant of considerable size (usually over twenty feet high) and growing with a single trunk.
- Tree (n.)
Something constructed in the form of, or considered as resembling, a tree, consisting of a stem, or stock, and branches; as, a genealogical tree.
- Tree (n.)
Wood; timber.
- Tree (v. t.)
To drive to a tree; to cause to ascend a tree; as, a dog trees a squirrel.
- Tree (v. t.)
To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree; as, to tree a boot. See Tree, n., 3.